Publications

Iran and the six major powers are closer than ever before to reaching an agreement to end the unnecessary crisis over Iran’s nuclear program. When the stakes are this high, sources and credibility matter. Enter the proverbial boy who cried […]
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NIAC President Trita Parsi issued the following statement following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address before Congress: “In 2002, Benjamin Netanyahu ‘guaranteed’ Congress that the Iraq war would have ‘enormous positive reverberations on the region.’ Today, he ‘guaranteed’ […]
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niac in the news

NIAC took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times slamming the planned speech to Congress by Israel’s prime minister. “Will Congress side with our president or a foreign leader?” reads the ad in Thursday’s edition. “President Obama is on the verge of a diplomatic victory that will prevent…
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UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy apologized to the campus Thursday and said he takes full responsibility for what happened with the policy to first ban Iranian nationals from certain programs then reverse the ban. After criticism from students, faculty and staff on campus as the National Iranian American Council among other…
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Jamal Abdi, policy director of NIAC, said his group was surprised by how many programs and students the ban would have affected at UMass Amherst. "The scope is definitely surprising," Abdi said in an interview with ABC News before the ban was overturned. "This is the problem with a university…
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Jamal Abdi, policy director for the National Iranian American Council, said the organization welcomed the reversal of the “discrimination policy. That’s a major positive step.” He said they knew the State Department had been working with UMass to change the policy. But not all students were embracing the school’s response,…
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